March 30, 2010
Heartache was heavy Monday, as South Bend school board members voted to cut more than $7 million from the corporation’s budget over the next two years, including more than 75 total jobs. But, school board members say they also felt an air of something else: compromise. The cuts will be felt across the board, from […]
March 30, 2010
While Sandwich schools should make it through this school year OK, cuts may be needed in the next school year. Superintendent Rick Schmitt told the School Board this month that the district’s overall fund balances will allow it to sustain many of its current programs and services, but "right now it looks like we might […]
March 30, 2010
Support for vulnerable students and busing are just a couple of the areas that are considered optional – and might therefore be on the chopping block – in School District 79’s budget. The breakdown of what’s considered core and what’s not was put on the table during the district’s first finance committee budget meeting last […]
March 30, 2010
BRISTOL — – Closing Bingham School, eliminating 21 full-time jobs and replacing dozens of veteran teachers with new hires will save the school system more than $1.6 million next year, Superintendent Philip Streifer told the finance board Monday night. However, that won’t be nearly enough to offset declining federal grants and state aid, soaring health […]
March 30, 2010
For much of the last two decades, Illinois schools have lurched from financial crisis to financial crisis, with no shortage of potential solutions floated through blue-ribbon panels, reform legislation, lawsuits and even a constitutional referendum. To date, the only clear winner has been inertia. Now with the state budget awash in red ink and Gov. Pat […]
March 30, 2010
Earlier this month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed cutting $1.2 billion in "school district central administration" to help balance the 2010-201 1 budget. But his definition of central administration is broad. According to Department of Finance officials, the governor wants total spending on the following areas reduced, on average, by 10 percent statewide: General administration: Central office expenses, […]
March 29, 2010
Los Angeles school district officials and employee unions announced an agreement Saturday to cut five days from this school year and seven days next year in an effort to maintain up to 2,100 campus jobs. If approved by members of the teachers and administrators unions, the move would save the Los Angeles Unified School District […]
March 29, 2010
There’s a tidal wave coming. And it’s about to affect your kids. In recent weeks, state education funding woes have triggered a tsunami of pink slips to thousands upon thousands of teachers and support staff in school districts statewide, with about 9,800 announced layoffs of teachers so far. Another 1,600 retiring teachers […]
March 29, 2010
With costs increasing and no additional money coming from the state, South Dakota teachers could lose their jobs and property owners in some districts might be asked to pay more for education. Tight budgets are nothing new to South Dakota schools. But in a bill signed Friday by Gov. Mike Rounds, lawmakers removed a […]
March 29, 2010
A few Richmonders have pushed their concerns over special-education testing from local blogs to the state law books. After the four locals launched a concentrated effort to raise the profile of alternative assessments given to thousands of young special-education students each year, Gov. Bob McDonnell on March 9 signed a bill requiring school superintendents to […]